Cockchafer

The Cockchafer was a small, unpretentious tavern, frequented chiefly by carriers and tradesmen, and, I regret to say, not wholly unknown to some of the boys of Saint Dominic's, who were foolish enough to persuade themselves that skittles, and billiards, and beer were luxuries worth the risk incurred by breaking one of the rules of the school.

The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Luckily the gallant "Cockchafer" is at the moment on the La Bassée sector, where I was interested to observe that heavy fighting has broken out to-day.

The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne Stephen King-Hall 1929

"Cockchafer," said Vane softly, and he knew that it had blundered up against some twig and fallen to earth, where, though he could not see it, he knew that it was lying upon its back sprawling about with its awkward-looking legs, vainly trying to get on to them again and start upon another flight.

The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias George Manville Fenn 1870

At about high water, 11 to 12 p.m., the electric light from the Duguay-Trouin [a blockading French ship] outside played on the bar for some time, the idea being possibly that the Cockchafer [a British gunboat on the Tamshui River] would steam out at night.

Archive 2008-04-01 Michael Turton 2008

Tadpoles equally strong for the Sixth, while Stephen felt decidedly uncomfortable as to the consequences of Bramble's discovery of his secret visits last term to the Cockchafer.

The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

"Why," he said, "you know I promised you never to go to the Cockchafer again, and I didn't, but I thought I ought to see Cripps and give him back the bicycle-lamp."

The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Ever since he had begun, during the holidays, regularly to frequent the Cockchafer, and to discover that it was his interest to make himself agreeable to the man he disliked and feared, the boy's vicious instincts had developed strangely.

The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Stephen to the Cockchafer, Stephen felt quite a liking for him, and couldn't understand why Oliver and Wraysford both ran him down.

The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

"No, I says, the honest working man don't do no good a-grumblin ', but when he's got his famerly to feed," [old Cripps was a widower, and his family consisted of the landlord of the Cockchafer],

The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872

There was a possibility the landlord of the Cockchafer had only come up out of curiosity, and, if so, might not have recognised his young friend among the players.

The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872